On January 14, 1968 –one month before Channel 12 was inaugurated– the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, held the Super Bowl IIthat is, the Second Game for the AFL-NFL World Championship, in which the Green Bay Packersfrom Wisconsin, under the leadership of the legendary Vince Lombardi, defeated the Oakland Raidersfrom California, by 33 points to 14.
Today, 55 years later, I remember that game with particular nostalgia, since I had to watch it live at the Orange Bowl in the company of two friends: Francisco Morales, a sportswriter, and Juan Manuel Cerda, a player for the Authentic Tigers, considered the best fullback of the Major League of Student American Football in Mexicofrom the 1967-1968 season.
Francisco Morales and I were there as part of a Mexican delegation made up of the 22 best players in the student league, including Juan Manuel, from the University of Nuevo Leonand Joaquín Castillo, considered the best quarterback of the Pumas from the Autonomous University of Mexico.
A month earlier, in December 1967, Francisco Pancho Morales and I had conducted a series of interviews at the Dallas Cowboys camp in their Texas hometown, incidentally the first color report to be broadcast in Monterrey.
Our report was achieved thanks to the support of Danny Villanueva, star kicker for the Cowboys that year. Through Danny we got an interview with legendary coach Tom Landry and Bob Hayes, star catcher and who won two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, in the 100-meter dash and the 4×100 relay.
The report included a Christmas dinner at the home of George Andrie, a Cowboys defensive back, and his beautiful family. The trip of the best student football players from all over Mexico was sponsored by the cigarette company La Moderna, now British American Tobacco Mexico.
Five years later, the Channel 12 of Monterrey began its broadcasts of professional American football, the one of today’s all-powerful NFLon Sundays at noon, following the Dallas Cowboys team from the preseason games.
From that time I keep the memory of a trip to Dallas, in the company of Enrique Flores Mora. The interview for television was made by Enrique, days before another Super Bowl, X (10, according to the NFL tradition of numbering the game in the Roman style) in Miami, although now the contenders would be the Cowboys and their archrivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the conversation barely lasted less than three minutes.
That day, Roger Staubach, quarterback and leader of the Dallas team, known as Captain America, was in a bad mood and was very cutting: “…Sunday’s work is not, has not been, and will not be personal, it is or will be , like a concert; neither the conductor nor the soloist will reach the truth of the message, if the sections –units– work and interpret in another rhythm, tone or level, the concert on Sunday January 18 will be performed by all of us –offensive and defensive– under the baton of the man in who we trust and who we follow, our coach Tom Landry”.
By the way, on Sunday, January 18, 1976, the Cowboys they were defeated by the Steelers with a score of 21-17, in one of the best games in the history of this sport.
Now, 55 years later, in Multimedia Television Channel 6our team to watch will be the Raiders, who left California’s sunny Bay Area to play in the city of casinos: Las Vegas.
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2023-08-19 16:38:26
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